Okay So one of my co-workers sent me this E-mail I thought it was pretty funny!!!!
> >> THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If you are 30 or older you will think this is
> >> hilarious!!!!
> >>
> >> When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
> >> with their tedious diatribes about how hard things
> >> were
> >>
> >> when they were growing up; what with walking
> >> twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill
> >> BOTH ways
> >>
> >> yadda, yadda, yadda
> >>
> >> And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
> >> there was no way in hell I was going to lay
> >>
> >> a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I
> >> had it
> >>
> >> and how easy they've got it!
> >>
> >> But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of
> >> thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the
> >> youth of today.
> >>
> >> You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
> >> childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
> >>
> >> And I hate to say it but you kids today you
> >> don't know how good you've got it!
> >>
> >> I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The
> >> Internet . If we wanted to know something,
> >>
> >> we had to go to the damn library and
> >> look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
> >>
> >> There was no email!! We had to actually write
> >> somebody a letter .with a pen!
> >>
> >> Then you had to walk all the way across the street
> >> and
> >>
> >> put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week
> >> to get there!
> >>
> >> There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to
> >> steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record
> >> store and shoplift it
> >> yourself!
> >>
> >> Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the
> >> radio and the DJ'd
> >> usually talk over the
> >> beginning and @#*% it all up!
> >> We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
> >> were on the phone and somebody else called they got
> >> a busy signal, that's
> >> it!
> >>
> >> And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either!
> >> When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was!
> >> It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your
> >> bookie, your drug dealer,
> >> a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!
> >> You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
> >>
> >>
> >> We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
> >> games with high-resolution
> >> 3-D graphics!
> >> We had the Atari 2600!
> >> With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'.
> >> Your guy was a little
> >> square!
> >> You actually had to use your imagination!!
> >> And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was
> >> just one screen
> >> forever!
> >>
> >> And you could never win.
> >> The game just kept getting harder and harder and
> >> faster and faster until you
> >> died!
> >> Just like LIFE!
> >>
> >> When you went to the movie theater there no such
> >> thing as stadium seating!
> >> All the seats were the same height!
> >> If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in
> >> front of you and you
> >> couldn't see,
> >> you were just screwed!
> >>
> >> Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
> >> was only like 15 channels
> >> and there was no on screen menu and no remote
> >> control!
> >> You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to
> >> find out what was on!
> >> You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!
> >> You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV
> >> to change the
> >> channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You
> >> could only get cartoons
> >> on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?!
> >> We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled
> >> little rat-bastards!
> >>
> >> And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
> >> something up we had to use the stove or go build a
> >> frigging fire .. imagine
> >> that!
> >> If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid
> >> Jiffy Pop thing
> >> and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
> >>
> >> That's exactly what I'm talking about!
> >> You kids today have got it too easy.
> >> You're spoiled.
> >> You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in
> >> 1980!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> The over 30 Crowd
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